“Mint julep: Take from the cold spring some water, pure as angels are; mix it with sugar till it seems like oil. Then take a glass and crush your mint within it with a spoon. Crush it around the border of the glass and leave no place untouched. Then throw the mint away—it is a sacrifice. Fill with cracked ice the glass: pour in the quantity of Bourbon which you want. It trickles slowly through the ice. Let it have time to cool, then pour your sugared water over it. No spoon is needed, no stirring allowed, just let it stand a moment. Then around the brim place sprigs of mint, so that the one who drinks may find taste and odor at one draft."

Sindaco Catlin :

“Five fingers Bourbon whisky in a glass, then in another glass a few drops of grenadine, half a spoon bar sugar, juice of half a lime. Mix well. Pour contents of second glass on the floor. Then drink contents of first glass."

Sinclair Lewis, autore :

“Reported he did not limit himself to one drink, but

four of his favorites were planter's punch, mint julep. fishhouse punch and "Americana."

George Jean Nathan, critico drammatico :

“Responded to the society's request for his preference as follows: "You speak of intelligent drinkers and in the same breath of mixtures."

Julian Street, autore :

”I detest cocktails and the usual like of mixed drinks. My appetizer is—old dry amontillado sherry with one drop of—bitters."

Stewart Edward White, autore :

"One teaspoon bar

sugar, and one teaspoon—bitters. Mix with just enough water to make a smooth paste. Fill glass with—gin, stirring vigorously."

One-sixth French Vermouth, one-sixth Italian Vermouth, two-thirds dry gin ,mixed in a tall, ice- filled glass. One olive and a pinch from a lemon peel completes the mixture. Sam figures you’ll use discretion in measuring the ingredients.

This drink, invented by Sam Blythe in a drink-mixing contest among famous authors and writers, was awarded the grand prize on December 10 ,1933, as the various drinks were tested. Sam, you must know, is one of the most popular political writers in the national capital, appears frequently in The Saturday Evening Post and other great periodicals, and knows his liquors. So his recipe is included for your own trial of it. Here's how to mix one of his"Washington-Merry-Go- Round" Cocktails.

Certain unmusical memories seem to recall an Italian opera of that name, but Solon thinks the title was bestowed by some wag who wanted to give "the beys" a new cocktail, and named it after them, as it were, but without their knowing it. That it was not a misprint for "Fanciulla del West" -Puccini's "Girl of the Golden West" -is rather certain, as its origin considerably antedates the premiere of that of the opera at the Metropolitan, December 10, 1910. Fanciulli is what they say when they mean "the boys" on the banks of the Tiber; also in the environs of Vesuvius.